Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
Best-sellers' artworks
2013 followers !
Self-taught, I learnt by integrating and taking inspiration from various cultures, through my discoveries.
Although he has achromatopsia (absence of color vision), Julien Rey takes us on a journey through his paintings to urban landscapes. Julien Rey's story begins like all great stories: with an impossible dream. With achromatopsia, the artist sees only in black and white. Yet, this condition did not prevent him from traveling to the borders of Burma, from changing his life (he became a Buddhist monk there) or from embarking on art. From his trip to Burma, he brought back a perfect mastery of gold leaf, a characteristic element of his work. His technique based on lacquer worked with a knife and gold leaf inlays places light at the center of his works. Marked by Zen philosophy, he creates minimal compositions that appear as suspended moments, poetic pauses.
His unique and individual technique using varnish worked with a knife and gold leaf inlays put light at the heart of his works, playing with areas of shadow and brightness, slivers of black and gold. His representations of urban landscapes thus confront obscurity and light in contrasted compositions with impressionist atmospheres. Trying to inspire, feel and self-reflect, the artist is not looking for a true re-transcription of what he sees, but on the contrary wishes to capture and materialise with games of shadows and light the "aesthetic link between finesse and rigour, movement and perspective, emptiness and fullness." In the end, it constitutes the heart of reality but distances itself from it the most.
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- 2020Vernissage, dedication at the CdA gallery in Shanghai. Exhibition in about thirty galleries around the worldShanghai, China
- 2018Public Prize, International Contemporary Art Fair of MarseilleMarseille, France
- 2016Start at Carré d'ArtistesAmsterdam, Netherlands (the)
- 2014Grand Prize of the Jury and Guest of Honor-Gordes, France
- 1985BirthParis, France
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137 Artworks
Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700- Sold
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Olivier au matin
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450 Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700- Sold
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City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300- Sold
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Mistral
120 x 120 cmUSD 6,000 Rey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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genesis
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450 Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Genesis
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmUSD 185- Sold
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Think of
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Future love
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
High time
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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Mistral
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmUSD 800